Before I Say Goodbye by Janette Valenzo

"Before I Say Goodbye" is a poetic play in five acts that invites the reader into the story of an Aries Brujita & classic Virgo crashing into each other. The book is filled with Easter eggs for readers to decipher, and poems calling and answering each other throughout. "Before I Say Goodbye" is the roadmap for anyone who has ever been afraid to leave a relationship. You cannot love someone into loving you, but you can love yourself enough to say goodbye to them and to start saying hello to yourself.

Janette Valenzo is a bilingual queer Chicana actor, poet, teaching artist, Tarot reader, and mental health advocate. She’s been published in several literary journals. She currently teaches with UCLA and several arts-based nonprofits, while writing a monthly career Tarotscopes column for Powerful Latinas Rising. She attends USC for a Master of Education in School Counseling and holds a BFA from NYU Tisch.

For more on her work, visit www.janettevalenzo.com.